6 We agreed we should TAKE OUR TIME in picking out a proper name.
7 We have a plan A/B for ideal name choice
8 A) A name with an available .com (we’ll of course get the .org too)
9 B) A name without an available .com - but some variation like <name>game.com available
11 - We should have name that is unique (as much as possible)
12 - We should have a name without an existing meaning (like nexuiz)
13 - We should have a name that people can pronounce
14 - We need to think of a symbol for our game as well (aside from the kanji “n” that nexuiz uses)
19 PICK FROM THE LIST YOUR TOP CHOICES and send dokujisan your list. Keep in mind that you’re picking the
20 ones that don’t completely suck. They dont have to be perfect, but they can give us a direction.
21 We need to start with a bulk list. We still hve more brainstorming for names to do.
23 **This isn’t the final list**
25 You guys picking from this list will help with future brainstorming.
226 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
248 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
269 ### AVAILABLE .COMs\*
282 ### NOT AVAILABLE .COMs
334 My favorite pick would be:
337 These are just suggestions, I’m not happy with any of them tbh (except Pheonix, but that was really shot down by other :D )
348 chikara ….. force / strength
353 komyuniti ….. community
355 bakuhatsu ….. explosion
364 danryoku ….. resilience
372 kessaku ….. masterpiece
398 MragMest (Russian origin, Dark Place)
399 MIPAS (Mutuaully Inexclusive Posts Are Stupid)
400 BRLOGENSHFEGLE (not really, we’ll settle on that if we don’t find anything within 1 week from retrieving this wiki page)
407 Kinky Polka Police, zone xi nut :D
412 **As to stay true and share a little laugh, here’s the piratepad copy of actual names, votes, and whatnot that happened during brainstorming:**
416 Suggested names by everyone, please don’t repeat
417 Lets just combine them in a large list, no names added. This will remove redundancy.
421 1. The names must not names of medicine/disease
422 2. The names must be able to be phonetically pronounced
423 3. The names must have less than a 1000 hits on Google
425 ### Criteria Discussion:
427 8 or less chars? 10 would be a better max why? I like shorter, but good names can be longer :) then why not up it to 20 why 10?
428 Hard limit isn’t good, it’s able to be recognized when a name is insanely long.
430 Logo example http://www.nullgaming.com/stuff/forkuiz\_logo\_idea1.jpg
431 //I know it’s only an example, but it looks like an xray of a vertebra (backbone)
432 whatever, just imagine some phoenix inspired image
433 //http://dclips.fundraw.com/pngmax/doctormo\_Phoeonix.png very large png, beware
437 http://dev.cankill.us/projects/notnexuiz/wiki/Names
440 Why do you think it would be a good idea?
441 \* Neuxiom: Portmanteau of New and Axiom, pronoucable, has only 1 hit on Google, and uses most of the letters from Nexuiz, thus enhancing recognition. difficult to pronounce Logical truncation of it is “Neux”, which is ambiguous when pronounced (Nukes vs Neux)
442 It’s suppose to be pronoucned as French, but NewX also works Neu-ee-om? Neu-ecks I mean the full name. Alone I’d pronounce Neux as in veux, but inside “Neuxiom” I’d use a hard X. (Nooks-ee-om is also possible). That’s intended, it’s a combination of New Axiom into one word
443 \* Itoma: In Japanese it means “free, free time, and to wave goodbye” Also, simple.
444 \* Xonotic: Sounds badass, and low hits on google. and very unique… it’s like aquatic but some space-alien type of origin.
445 \* Akion: Hehh, it’s C.Brutail’s other nickname, it can’t be anything but cool :D no, seriously, it’s just considered good by others, I strongly dislike it… however…
446 \* Akionix: Sounds fine, easy to pronounce, and only 33 hits from google
448 Does not meet criteria: Akion (25000 hits), Itoma (639,000 hits), kenryoku (60,600 hits), pulse (65,500,000 hits), crux (5,980,000 hits, is also a noun, Linux distro), Xenatic (33,600 hits), Maven (10,200,000 hits, it is english word and means expert ), Xenoty (5,140 hits), Nexotic (9,710 hits), Yennu (17,600 hits)
450 Does meet 1000 hits criteria:
455 Vote for the names you like here.
457 mand1nga: Xonotic, Akion
458 Samual: Akion, Itoma, Xenotic
459 FruitieX: Xenoty, Xonotic, Itoma (in that order)
460 C.Brutail: Itoma, Xonotic (in that order)
461 Doku: xonotic, akion, itoma (in that order)
464 <we will count votes sometime in the future so no one is influenced>
466 and the name is (drumroll) …. :
469 //I suggest 2 criteria: 1) The names must not names of medicine/disease 2) They must have less than 1000 hits on Google; IMO that’s too arbitrary. A project I contribute too tops our rankings, but there are over 100,000 unrelated hits.
470 //This is a NEW project, a unique name is critical
471 // News releases will rapidly bring any name used to the top of the results, I think.
472 // Most of our links come from the reviewers, or message boards
473 // That should already be a couple.
474 //Just consider this, it’s best to be innovative with names, that’s how they get remembered
475 // I maintain that 1000 is too low, it’ll disqualify nearly all names that aren’t extremely unique.
476 // Best of the best, I’d say…
477 // thats why we need a name like ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU or so
478 // New criteria: It needs to be shorter than 12 letters
479 // Memorable trumps unique, I think. E.g. Ubuntu
480 // Would anyone remember how to type ARHEULRCEH<RYGCRDIEMONTU?
481 // No, and I think most of the non-obvious names should be ruled out. If you can't convey the spelling by saying it, it's bad. (E.g. "Zenjumps" works, "Xenjumpz" does not.) This is called phonetical :).
482 // if this pad is crawled by google then we should substract 1 to the amount of hits :>
483 //This pad is WIP, and in javascript.
485 //Bad news, xenotic.com/.org is taken… so what now? - Xenoty :)))
486 //We can use these criteria to filter our potential names
487 //The reason why we need less than a certain number of hits, is because we won’t be found on a search engine if we don’t, this is why Nexuiz is not an existing noun
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